Adults Quotes - Page 3

• I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Funny, Stupid, Kids

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• I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Responsibility, Needed

  Interview, www.ign.com. July 01, 2013.

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• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Designer Clothes, Literature

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.219, Vintage

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• Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

  Donna Tartt

  Children, Emotional, Literature

  "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. October 22, 2002.

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• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Smart, Reading Books, Enough

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• Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Children, Care, Dental

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• It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

  Kathy Valentine

  Movie, Valentines Day, Lunch

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• You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

  Robert Cormier

  Boys, Years, Upset

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

  Kieran Culkin

  Firsts, Film, Bigs

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• For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Half, Firsts, Democrat

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• Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

  Bill Griffith

  Real, Kids, Body

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• The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Moving, Competition, Fierce

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Thinking, Noses, Adultery

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• But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

  Robert Fripp

  Training, Attention, Holding On

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• Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

  Candace Cameron

  Drivers, Treated, License

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

  Philip Kaufman

  Thinking, Europe, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

  Frank Pittman

  Powerful, Successful, Parent

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• Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

  Mike Pence

  Cells, Miracle, Research

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

  Randall Terry

  Marriage, Boys, Men

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• Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

  Bill Condon

  Together, Pieces, Faces

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• I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

  James McGreevey

  Men, Affair, Engaged

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Children, Choices, Abnormal

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

  King Hussein I

  Truth, Mistake, Dark

  "Remarks during a conference of Arab chiefs of state". The New York Times, p. 6, August 31, 1967.

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• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Boys, Males

  Nancy Friday (1980). “Men in Love: Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage”

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• If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Use, Violence

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